Today you'll hear the annual chorus of "we will never forget." But we
have forgotten. We have forgotten the uproar against the Patriot Act,
which was passed in the middle of the night. We have forgotten that
Guantanamo Bay was once treated as an aberration, which Obama promised to close. And we have forgotten what freedoms have been sacrificed in the name of an ever-growing threat.

As an illustration of that, consider these 7 examples of the types of
people the government and corporations now routinely label as
"terrorists."

2. Tim DeChristopher. As an undergraduate student, DeChristopher
disrupted an illegal oil and gas lease auction by placing bids (when he
knew he didn't have the money). For his act of non-violent civil
disobedience, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison. Politicians called
him an "eco-terrorist."

3. Muslim communities were disproportionately
targeted in the aftermath of 9/11, and through surveillance, harassment,
infiltration (not to mention physical violence) the attacks continue.
This has become so institutionalized within law enforcement that they
continue even when they have not generated a single lead.

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4. Anarchists. In the Northwest, more than 60 FBI
and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided homes and subpoenaed
activists to a federal grand jury. The warrants listed, among other
generic items, "anti-government or anarchist literature."

5. Animal rights protesters. The Center for Constitutional Rights is in court challenging
a law called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which is so broad
that it labels a wide range of First Amendment conduct as terrorism if
it threatens corporate profits.

6. Anti-war and international solidarity activists.
In the Midwest, the FBI raided homes and a political group's office, and
served subpoenas for a federal grand jury. The fishing expedition has
been fruitless for the FBI, but it has brought together a broad range of groups opposed to the political attacks.